Apparently I resemble a tom?? Is this normal?

[DuckDuckSook]

Hello.
One of my royal palm hens must think I look like a tom because she follows me around while I do my farm chores and then lays down in front of me as if I'm going to fertilize some eggs. Is this normal turkey/bird behavior? She just started doing this after I re-homed an aggressive tom.

 

[R2elk]

Hello.
One of my royal palm hens must think I look like a tom because she follows me around while I do my farm chores and then lays down in front of me as if I'm going to fertilize some eggs. Is this normal turkey/bird behavior? She just started doing this after I re-homed an aggressive tom.

This is normal for a human imprinted hen turkey.

I go out of the way to prevent my poults from becoming imprinted. It prevents this type of behavior in hens and also prevents human aggression that happens in human imprinted toms.

It isn't that she thinks you look like a tom. It is that the human imprinting prevents her from being able to understand that people are not turkeys.

 

[DuckDuckSook]

This is normal for a human imprinted hen turkey.

I go out of the way to prevent my poults from becoming imprinted. It prevents this type of behavior in hens and also prevents human aggression that happens in human imprinted toms.

It isn't that she thinks you look like a tom. It is that the human imprinting prevents her from being able to understand that people are not turkeys.

I didn't get her as a poult. She was already 6 months old. Would that still happen? She was raised by other humans though when she was a baby, just not me.

 

[R2elk]

I didn't get her as a poult. She was already 6 months old. Would that still happen? She was raised by other humans though when she was a baby, just not me.

It doesn't matter that you didn't raise her. She was obviously human imprinted by the people who raised her.